Music 2711F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Hugh Le Caine, Williams Mix, Pierre Schaeffer
13 Oct 2016
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They help to pave the way for development electronic music they are the first one. Two influential approaches to electronic music: musique concrete: Electronics used to record and modify sounds from natural world construct using the sounds: elektronische musik: Germany, approach only electronic sounds to create the composition. Began by sound technician pierre schaeffer at french national radio, 1948 sound technician began using tapes with natural sounds transform, ex train, natural sounds musical inst played and singer singing, bring back to studio and manipulate. Created using tape recordings existing on the world. Only pre-existing,"concrete" sounds them you couldn"t cut off. Many composers visited the french national radio studio composers like messian, stackhaosen went to studio and found out what is involve. New, similar studios founded in usa: eg, ussachevsky and luening at columbia. Some composers applied their own methods to this new technique eg, cage and the chance method (williams mix, 1952)
